Shiny Happy Arsians Playing Eve 4: Only way to win, is not to play!

I expect this has something to do with TEST comms being so bad that even goons won't put up with it. I went on a joint fleet once - there were constant racial slurs, the usual tired sexist garbage, and some fuckwit with a voicechanger who wouldn't shut up.

If I'm on a stratop that's gotten as bad as you describe (which is rare) I sometimes drop into the "no chatter" sub channel. "No Chatter" makes it so you can only hear people in the command channels, it's pretty useful.

Honestly I think the problem with getting a group of ARSED together is we're evenly spread over the planet and most of us don't spend a whole lot of time logged in. It's not rare for me to be the only person in corp chat. We've gotten some ok small groups together on pre-planned weekend ops though.

It looks like, if I want to keep my Domi with turret damage bonus, I'm going to have to get a navy domi. I guess that's not so bad, but they ain't the cheapest thing out there. Not the most expensive, either.

edit: HOLY FUCK! Navy Domis are 400mil ISK in Jita! I don't remember them being THAT expensive in the past. Holy shit!

Not sure if this belongs in this thread, but I'm going to give Dust 514 a go. I know almost nothing about it, but I like the idea of being able to (possibly/somehow) communicate with ship-flying dudes.

I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to buy a Navy Geddon now? Prices (if they haven't already) are probably going to go up since they're taking away the laser platform from T1.

Wait, what? They're taking away the laser platform from T1?

(The link to the changes is websensed for me.)

They're turning it into a full out drone boat with neut range bonus.

Armageddon:

This is a fun one. Bet you guys didn't think my first two projects would be to slow down the Talos and throw the old Armageddon out the window! But! I think its the best thing for the race line overall. What we've done here is make the Armageddon an echo to the new dragoon destroyer. It makes sense for Amarr to have a battleship variation that rewards players who've trained for dragoon -> arbitrator -> prophecy, and with the neut range bonus, the Armageddon should be a huge payoff. As the Armageddon is falling under 'combat' it will receive a substantial hitpoint boost, sensor strength boost, sig increase, and speed decrease.

While we understand that this is a very powerful ship, it should not be oppressive. Hopefully it will offer a new type of challenge to fly and fly against. To anyone who is very sad to see the old Armageddon go, I encourage to you consider that if left the same, it would have been even more crowded by the Abaddon as a result of the price adjustment than it already was. Again, we look forward to your feedback.

It can use whatever you like. Gets no high slot bonuses, so no one is pigeonholed into using missiles. Personally, I'll be fitting it full of neuts in the highs and letting sentries/heavies do the damage. Should be a great small gang ship.

It looks like I won't be using my new, improved, super navy domi anytime soon. Too expensive. I'll need to do a lot more ratting to afford it without a big problem, and it won't necessarily be worth it that much until after the new expansion comes out. (Well, except for an extra mid. What would I do with the extra mid, anyway? An extra cap recharger and make the rigs drone bonuses?)

After the warp gate, I landed in space with a giant bubble below me (I think it has the next warp gate in it. 12 or so BS and about 10 Cruisers. There were some structures above me as well. I had to come back to work, so I left my ishtar orbiting the beacon with a BS shooting it. Guess I need to figure out what I'm killing when I come home.

Edit: looks like it is a guritas military complex and might drop a-type and DG loot. CCP's PVE content is so strange and soul-less.

I played with the Navy Domi fit on EFT a bit last night. T2 350mm Rails and a tracking computer would increase the dps and range nicely. I can't figure out what else to put in the middle slot other than a tracking computer. It reduces the cap to 10-15 minutes or so, but that's not too bad. Without the tracking computer, I'm pretty cap stable. I just don't know what I could put in the extra mid besides a tracking computer. (a forth omni probably wouldn't help much, and a third cap recharger wouldn't either)Right now, my meta4 350mm rails do 30% of my damage. I like them.

I think a geddon might make a very successful jump beacon stalker, now:

There's really no reason to neut out a JF that just jumped in, it won't be able to jump back out before you can point it anyway. Even with good implants they take (assuming they made only 1 previous jump and so jump in at ~30% cap) ~45s to regen enough to jump again. Your bigger worry (and the reason you're unlikely to see BS used for this purpose) is that JF's align in ~25 seconds (less with implants), so by the time a cloaked BS gets up to speed, warps down and points the JF it's even money that the JF has warped out already. At the very least you'll also need to sacrifice a dictor or another light tackler (bomber) to initially snag the JF. It's much more common to see a SC or even a solo dread used for JF killing, either one is an excellent choice, the SC being ewar immune and the dread is immune while it's in siege so (assuming A- bubbler doesn't come in 5 minutes, B- the tower doesn't have more than 1 neut on it and C- you fit for tank and cap regen) you'll be able to jump clear before the POS points/any subcaps point you. The one nice thing about JF hunting is that they're almost never bait, JF's are just too expensive to suicide and there's literally no way to save them from either one of these ships, they don't have enough HP in shield or armor to not be alpha'd to death no matter what amount of rep they receive. Even if you get killed too, you're guaranteed the JF kill as well. Just don't fall into a pattern, if you get a kill somewhere GO SOMEWHERE ELSE for a good long time. Supercarriers that do the same things over and over die in bright expensive fires.

Then there's also the problem of having multiple neuts in local but honestly any JF pilot that jumps a JF to a static beacon in the first place is unequivocally an idiot and they deserve exactly what happens to them. Undock cynos are the only thing I have ever jumped my JF's to (except for some unique circumstances during the invasion of Fountain ) and they're both several years old, happily alive and planning to stay that way .

What is WolfPackin, exactly? Just putting groups together to go look for targets?

I was told that this was all just to fuck around with RAIDEN, but... that the underlying current was to fuck up TEST.I seriously doubt Goons or the CFC actually wants Delve. Sov is expensive. But taking someone else's sov is significantly less expensive.

What is WolfPackin, exactly? Just putting groups together to go look for targets?

It's a mocking term from a long time ago when goonswarm was slowly evicting some shitty alliance or another out of their space (LV maybe, I don't remember). Upon losing the space they declared that they'd never leave, basing "wolfpacks" out of lowsec and continually raiding what was now goon space. As with most alliances they quickly found out that working as a corporation or alliance of any size out of lowsec was a huge pain in the ass- remember that jump freighters didn't exist then, and capitals were very few and far between, so any sort of logistics meant huge freighter escort ops that made people want to throw their computers out of windows.

now its basically a term for small gang warfare without any real intent to take or hold space

Mainly it's the strength of the resist bonus. That makes s big difference in EHP. The avatar owns because no ammo. Also, the Archon is even stronger in PvE with the resists, so a lot of people go for it. That said, the Erebus is the most popular Titan by far, and I'd imagine there are a lot more Nyx(ii) than other Supercarriers as well.

I'm having some weird red-teal tinted 3d areas issues with the latest NVidia drivers. It's annoying. It's like there is a red to teal gradient overlaid on top of the entire non-HUD section of the game.

If, big if, TEST and Goons are done playing nice forever, until SOV mechanics change I seriously doubt many peeps would want to play the SBU game to take space. Bore them to death with SBU or knocking POS's down to nothing.